Ethics notes - the phenomenon of the cosmic safehold evidences a source of morals : see @ ../text.brec ∵ as I work at explicating the artificial explanantia, I happen upon larger considerations that speak in their favour, giving me reason to believe that the safehold is indeed an artifact of creative design, considerations in which a feature of the safehold serves as evidence of that design and therewith of a source of morals in a universal or cosmic creator : re `(as I work).+(I happen.+on.+considerations.+in).+(favour)(, giving me reason.+)`s see `${1}.+${2}.+${3}.+${4}`sp @ ../text.brec ∵ those considerations reveal in the underlying theory of the artificial explanantia what is not immediately obvious, namely the following coherence ∵ they reveal a [surprising] larger coincidence [that is] not immediately obvious - among: i) [practical] reason ii) {[our] nature} | {natural selection} iii) [cosmic] safehold - in that: - all relate [us] to the same end|object - each does so optimally - through optimal: i) aiming|guiding [of us] toward it ii) urging|forcing [of us] toward it iii) facilitation of [[our] progress to] it ∵ this [surprising] [larger] [triple] coincidence is accounted for [elegantly] by each design explanans and thereby given [a] [theoretic] coherence ∵ accounting for and giving [theoretic] coherence to a [surprising] [larger] coincidence speaks in favour of the truth of an explanans symmetry : see @ text.notes_boneyard.brec : speaks not in favour, after all ∵ revelation of this coherence (and explanatory power) in the other explanantia is unlikely ∵ they could hardly (in their explication) refer to practical reason as a causal factor ∵ they are natural as opposed to artificial explanantia Anscombe’s challenge: the opportunity (presented by the safehold) to meet her challenge of a modern (re)grounding for moral law : re `Anscombe’s challenge` see doi:10.1017/9781139025065 : Darwall, Stephen. 2023. *Modern moral philosophy from Grotius to Kant.* pp. 1-4 : re `Anscombe’s challenge` see doi:10.1017/9781009543835 : Darwall, Stephen. 2025. *Modern moral philosophy in the nineteenth century.* pp. 1-3 - to read: \ in addition to Anscombe and Darwall \ 1958. 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Darwall, Stephen. *Modern moral philosophy in the nineteenth century.* + re "Anscombe" "Modern moral philosophy" moral law, conditions a) a principle defining the criteria of right action : re `principle defining the criteria of right action` see `^*: re .moral law.+${same}`s @ ../text.brec : join @ `^^moral law, conditions that hold$`i @ ../default/._/text.notes.brec •) its being absolute : re `absolute` see `^*: re .moral law.+a.+${same} principle`s @ ../text.brec , sub-conditions that suffice : ad `suffice` : this set of sub-conditions of absoluteness is sufficient, but might or might not be necessary, depending on whether ∃ a different set that also is sufficient b) its command (addressed demand) by our creator : cf. `^*: re .moral law.+a divine ordinance`s @ ../text.brec : join @ `^^moral law, conditions that hold$`i @ ../normative/._/text.notes.brec c) the creator’s backing of it by force : join @ `^^moral law, conditions that hold$`i @ ../applied/._/text.notes.brec - these suffice to remove any qualification of the principle and thereby make it absolute / here the particular principle that meets condition (a) is a principle of logic carrying the implicit qualification, ‘if one wishes to act logically’ ∵ together they make the principle obligatory without qualification / here they make the principle of logic apply regardless of one’s wishes, whether one likes it or not admit+ however a qualification of scope (cosmic) re the case of mundane creators | a scope ‘qualification’ of ‘cosmic’ needs no admission ∵ already it inheres (implicitly) in our concept of moral law ∵ it attaches also in|to the case of God’s moral law, the scope of which is not truly absolute ∵ that law is scoped to God’s creation (or its morally competent creatures) as opposed to all that exists *including God* ∵ we do not think of that law applying to God as it would apply to us + ∴ explicate the principle’s absolute scope (in keeping with the concept) as being all of creation, or all of creation’s morally competent creatures, or whatever the correct term | in that case the qualification must be elevated to the moral law, making it cosmic as opposed to universal in scope ∵ only a universal creator (God) could obligate universally / though the difference between cosmic and universal could hardly matter in practice / yet (a mitigation) the scope of obligation could at least be multi-cosmic, in being lineally inherited structure of the ethic - division of concept into conditions → division of ethics into fields : re `division of concept into (conditions)` see `^^moral law, ${same}$`i - consideration of the latter *follow* on that of the former / rather than consider first the customary division of ethics, then, in that light, the division of the concept - the customary fields of ethics I reuse if (and as) applicable : ad `\(and as\)` : I wear the shoe as it fits - two of the conditions of moral law (that analysis yields) apportion cleanly between two fields of ethics (normative and applied) - the command condition is proper to normative ethics ∴ the normative ethic is the proper place for seeking the creator’s reason : re `creator’s reason` see `^*• God had reason to make the safehold$`s @ ~/work/safehold/aetiology/text.brec : re `creator’s reason` see `^*• cosmocrafters have reason to.+cosmocraft`s @ ~/work/safehold/aetiology/text.brec - the enforcement condition is proper to applied ethics ∵ outside the norms that guide, the only question is the facts that move us to conform